Crime Stories: ITV 1........Wtf is this program?

I am crying inside because this program exists, not enough to bring about physical tears but deep inside I know  without doubt, conflict or question that humanity has made a mistake for this to have happened...........

There's a program on on ITV 1 daytime called 'Crime Stories'  that I was first made aware of about two weeks ago.  I was taking some time out from applying for jobs and decided to take a trip downstairs to the living room to sit with my mum and have a cup of tea and read the days paper. As I read my attention was broken as my mum voluntarily announced "that's that boiy(Glasgow slang for boy/young male human) from emmerdale"

Alerting me, I was immediately drawn to the television, looking towards it critically as I often did to see what pish my mum was wasting her eyes on..............I looked at the screen, began to take in what I was seeing and confusion set in. I was baffled.

I asked as i often did "whats that your watching?"........and she replied"crime Stories". And as I further attempted to digest what i was seeing....................on screen a young man was being questioned by police in a custody room, and i vaguely recognized him as some actor from Emmerdale. However to confuse matters a narrator at this point began to explain in a genuine and authoritive manner the reason as to why this young man was being held in police custody. This was narrated in a style very similar to that done on real life crime documentaries such as 'police camera action'. At this point I couldn't work out whether this program was reality crime    ( in the same vein as shows like 'Police, Camera, Action') or drama due to the bizarre mixture of both that it was conveying....a real actor being filmed in actual custody for an actual crime, surely not?

So to make this clear to you, the people who have made this show have made a fictional crime drama, which they make look real by filming, structuring, editing and narrating it as if it was a reality television program but admit from the opening credits that none of this is real or based on any truth...............so why bother making the fucking thing..........I just don't get it!

I know people like a bit of drama, but they pointlessly try and integrate elements of reality tv…it doesn't work and I cant understand how anybody could give this program the go ahead!

My question to the producers of this show is this: "Whats the point in using a reality television format if your not even pretending its real?"

Further, people enjoy reality television because of the consequences experienced by those who are taking part in the reality experiment (tv show). This show contains no reality, so why does the format, production, editing and narrating suggest that it is real but yet does not hide that it is not?

Now I wouldn't like to think anybody would think im being a smart arse here but I honestly at any point or turn within my own psyche cannot conclude as to why this format could be accepted by any qualified person as a good idea.  I have even wondered if Chris Morris or Armando Ianucci planted this seed on the ITV for a laugh .Unlike their successful sojourns into television, this program however only contains half the integrity of satire.......... you know the weird bit without it being funny?

If people think ITV's Crime Stories is perfectly acceptable then we may soon well be heading for this level of pointlessness.............

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